http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:LightFantastic&section=today deviantART RSS for by:LightFantastic en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:57:57 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://LightFantastic.deviantart.com/journal/26089179/ http://LightFantastic.deviantart.com/journal/26089179/ Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:26:03 PDT [link] I found this great heart bokeh texture that was just perfect for the theme. And don`t get me started on the grunge textures.

I think I should buy a scanner to make my own textures `cause while using other people`s textures is easy and great it only takes ones pictures to a certain direction - which may not be the direction I want to go. Besides, I would like to try integrating some watercolour paintings with digital drawing really much - just like the talented Hannah Stouffer does in her amazing pieces. Check them out: [link] They`ll blow your mind.

And I you have any recommendations for a quality scanner, drop me a line.

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Here is a GREAT article series about the seven deadly sins of a photographer. And the guy who wrote it is a GENIUS. The texts are filled with great thoughts and truths. And they really do help to be a better photographer. And for example to accept that some criticism is just envy.

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]]> =LightFantastic http://LightFantastic.deviantart.com/journal/25598841/ http://LightFantastic.deviantart.com/journal/25598841/ Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:45:45 PDT ) - separately in different places. I AM SO THRILLED! I am just filled with ideas, how to photograph those ladies. And as if that wasn`t enought I am still going to take formal portraits (with my brand spanking new Elichromes flashes) of my relatives. Man, I just love holidays!

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]]> =LightFantastic http://LightFantastic.deviantart.com/journal/21998143/ http://LightFantastic.deviantart.com/journal/21998143/ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:47:48 PST ), but when one is having so incredibly low view counts on pieces one is about to make an exhibition of...

I mean is there a button I am forgetting to push that allows people to watch (and more importantly comment on) my photos and pieces?

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But until then, be prepared for a lot of bad pieces and a lot of good pieces to arrive at my account!

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Next up on my list are mediocre studio lights and a Wacom -table. And then a larger hard-drive. And then, in the distant future, a brand new, pimped-out iMac.

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Be prepared for a flood of new photos, my opossums!

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But after that 10 weeks of holiday! I am going to fill my external hard drive with pictures of Finnish summer. I am going to have such a great time!

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And it inspires me to photograph and to write. Because, man, that show is shot with such care and concideration it astounds me everytime. The usage of blur and lighting makes me want to grab a camera and try to do similiar kind of aethereal beauty. Just the intro itself has so many original visual ideas, it`s staggering. So now I am going out for a walk and try to capture the essence of spring - end of death and the beginning of life.

And then I´ll propably watch some more of that visual and narrative narcotic substance.

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One thousand views and counting. Time to pop the bubbly!

But seriously. My pace in making photographs and putting them on display here on DA is quite on the fast side. I do feel sorry for all those people watching me `cause they are getting deviations every day and those are propably just from me. The weekends are the worse `cause I have my days off during them. I seem to be just making photos and taking raw material to make those photos from. I am eager to buy more equipment so I can expand my skills. Now I want to buy Wacom`s Bamboo, some lenses and very many strobes. And we all know those things don`t come cheap! So I`d better start saving up!

But in the meanwhile I am continuing to bombard my watcher with steady stream of photos.

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After moving to a new city, I have lost all physical contacts I have made with people who used to pose for me from time to time. And that is showing! I can only photograph me and as people who do self-portrait know, it can be quite a hassle. But I have no other choice if I don`t want to take sceneries all the time.

Now, as some people can deduct, I have delved into my old stashes of portraits and started to work with them. And surprisingly I have un-earthed some gems I didn`t even know I had took.

And there is also one positive side to the fact that I don`t have any people to shoot here. I have to take a closer look at my older photos. And usually now I see them more clearly and especially the flaws in them.

But soon I am going to put an ad to the paper and start searching some people to my conceptual portraits.

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Now that I am on a luxurious vacation for a week, I have been taking photos like a maniac... and then spending my time with Photoshop like a madman. There seems to be no limit to how much time I am willing to try practically enverythins that monster is capable of. And now it seems that I may have gone overboard - I have to jam all kind of effect to EVERY picture. I just can`t let it rest. And quite frankly: some of the results have been down right God awful (as some may have wittnessed).

But now I am trying to keep a break from Photoshop, though it may be an empty promise. It just seems that the world is full of thing to photograph and enhance!

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